Do I believe that if you lie to someone a week later a tree limb is gonna fall on your car?...No.
I do believe that actions have effects, lieing for intance will tend to alienate honest people, and leave you surrounded by people who don't care that you're a liar. I doubt that on average, the group that doesn't mind you lieing behaves as well as the group that you have alienated, and thereby you will be exposed to more negative actions by the peer group you have created for yourself.
To me it's not some mystical force, just a simple law of nature.
but I suspect we get an inflated image of their frequency and sometimes their severity. Bad news travels well, and strong disappointment can lead to exageration.
I believe that free will, and nurture, weigh in with their own measure of influence in the nature versus nurture debate, but I also believe in genetic predisposition, and that choice, and nurture work from a predisposed staring point.
As such I believe that our societal traits still reflect what we value as a group. A large percentage of our populace is still breeding for conflict by valueing aggression and dominant/submissive relationships.
Sidenote... I was looking to approach this topic through the side door in the interest of getting rational feedback...maybe I'll tackle my underestimation of this community in another thread.
Ocee35 Forum Posts (3,852)
RE: Who's got a good jaoke to tell?
This is very bad news indeed.